How Much Personality Do You Give Your Sims?
How much personality do you give your sims within and outside of the game's limits? And how do you do it? For example, things within the game limits would be assigning traits and hobbies or getting...
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I like to start them off in CAS knowing their personality basically. They almost all have a backstory no matter how loose. I don't usually play them as children though even though I know that would add layers to their personalities... I just don't have the patience to tell that backstory out .. unless the point is to tell that first part of their story also. Anyway, then I assign them the traits I know will work best in the game to express that. I also usually make it a point to get other traits (bought) quickly that will help them interact or live more in the way that seems right for them. I rarely give them traits that will take away tension, discomfort, sadness ect anymore unless it makes sense for them to not have these feelings. Although sometimes playing a supersim is fun still.
One thing that I think is very important for most of my sims is I "train" them for a few weeks by being on them actively directing and playing them and doing what I know they would do - actively playing that out. For instance if they aren't going to using a phone, computer or tv .. I give them a skill and interest that I know they will most often default to for fun (and often don't give them a tv or computer for a long time). When they finally do get a tv or computer they rarely show much interest in them because they would rather paint/garden/play an instrument/play a card game/listen to the radio/read a book already. Also mine never seem to default to cell phone use unless I've left them in the middle of no where away from home or locked them in somewhere with nothing to do. I think it helps that I play small sim households though and most of mine are single for a long time. They might have a live in helper or sig other or a child eventually so I do get to see them playing autonomously and I'm usually pleased with their choices and idiosyncrasies by then. They just don't have a big opportunity to go out of character with me on them frequently either way.
Some stories I tell can never really be expressed through the game and I simmify it. I have to know going in that they are going to do things in more of a slapstick way. So since I'm attracted to horror, sci-fi ect.. I end up with black comedies and funny (retroish) science fiction even if the character I'm basing it off of might not be that way precisely. Or I chose characters in the first place that I feel would adapt well to be simmified and who would be comfortable living in that universe.
One thing that I think is very important for most of my sims is I "train" them for a few weeks by being on them actively directing and playing them and doing what I know they would do - actively playing that out. For instance if they aren't going to using a phone, computer or tv .. I give them a skill and interest that I know they will most often default to for fun (and often don't give them a tv or computer for a long time). When they finally do get a tv or computer they rarely show much interest in them because they would rather paint/garden/play an instrument/play a card game/listen to the radio/read a book already. Also mine never seem to default to cell phone use unless I've left them in the middle of no where away from home or locked them in somewhere with nothing to do. I think it helps that I play small sim households though and most of mine are single for a long time. They might have a live in helper or sig other or a child eventually so I do get to see them playing autonomously and I'm usually pleased with their choices and idiosyncrasies by then. They just don't have a big opportunity to go out of character with me on them frequently either way.
Some stories I tell can never really be expressed through the game and I simmify it. I have to know going in that they are going to do things in more of a slapstick way. So since I'm attracted to horror, sci-fi ect.. I end up with black comedies and funny (retroish) science fiction even if the character I'm basing it off of might not be that way precisely. Or I chose characters in the first place that I feel would adapt well to be simmified and who would be comfortable living in that universe.
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